Happy Easter

[PSmonkey]

Happy Easter everybody. To celebrate the holiday I desided to do a little easter hunt.

Through out the day, I will post new screenshots regarding the current progress of Monkey64 (so check back freqently).

"Eh?" you say? Wasn't I on break?

Well yes I was. Yet that did not stop me from doing a few things here and there on the emu. Not major. Just felt bored on wendsday durring lunch so tried a few things. As well also a little work on saturday (my only day off from work this week due to milestones).

While mario64 is still not working (and still my top priority), a few other games have started to improve.

So how does this hunt play out? Well it's simple. I will be hiding new screenshots once and a while in old post (not my post but any random post). They will all be in the archive section.

First one to find the screenshot is to report back here (with a link to the post) where they will be credited for the find.

So check here first to see what has been found before you go off on the hunt.

First shot goes up soon. Good luck. :)

Archive forums:
http://www.dcemu.co.uk/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=115

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-- 3GG #1 -- (http://www.dcemu.co.uk/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=101557&postcount=171) (Quest 64) Found by $n!pR
-- E§§ #2 -- (http://www.dcemu.co.uk/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=95696&postcount=59) (Doom 64) Found by michael chan
-- ÊGG #3 -- (http://www.dcemu.co.uk/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=102867&postcount=29) (Rugrats) Found by michael chan
-- ξGG #4 -- (http://www.dcemu.co.uk/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=102641&postcount=278) (Quake 64) Found by jas0nuk
--  #5 -- (http://www.dcemu.co.uk/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=95074&postcount=14) (Virtual Chess 64) Found by michael chan
-- æĝĝ #6 -- (http://www.dcemu.co.uk/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=102684&postcount=4) (Penny Racers) Found by Davidov
-- ē§ģ #7 -- (http://www.dcemu.co.uk/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=102105&postcount=139) (Quest 64) Found by kyle2194
-- 槧 #8 -- (http://www.dcemu.co.uk/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=104222&postcount=182) (Mace) Found by kyle2194
-- Æĝĝ #9 -- (http://www.dcemu.co.uk/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=95763&postcount=71) (Wonder Project J2) Found by kyle2194
-- Egg #10 -- (http://www.dcemu.co.uk/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=102009&postcount=221) (Iris map by Sniper) Found by $n!pR

-- There are currently 0 screenshot(s) Not Found --

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--edit--
Just to clairify, the shot will not be in my post so they are not to be confused with old screenshots.

-- To be Fair --
To be fair, don't edit old post to make it seem like you found it before others. If I find you're post edited with the result after someone else (by time stamp), I will give it to the other person.

[stotheamuel]

fun damn snipe beet me to it

[michael chan]

-- E§§ 2 -- (http://www.dcemu.co.uk/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=20592&page=6&pp=10)

scroll down to jairolas post.heheheeh i have no life..

[DPyro]

-- 3GG #1 -- (http://www.dcemu.co.uk/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=21618&page=18&pp=10)

HAHA!! :p

[PSmonkey]

Congrats to $n!pR & michael chan for finding the first two.

Keep checking back all day when I will post more (no fun to post them all now :P).

[nekus]

http://psp-news.dcemu.co.uk/djsp.shtml

is this one?

[jas0nuk]

Wow, progress in those screenshots is looking amazing. 3D with proper textures!

[Accordion]

wow progress , its beginning to take full form

post a pic from IRIS as well

[michael chan]

http://psp-news.dcemu.co.uk/djsp.shtml

is this one?

nope.thats something else

[-{PhoeniX}-]

lookin good

[DarkPSP]

Sounds fun.
And the current screens found are great.

[pkmaximum]

Awsome job PSmonkey I could actually tell what game you were playing "Quest" I personally liked that game a lot as I beat it 3 times. Lol i Love RPG's but great work PSmonkey and I can't wait to see more screen shots on that game. And other games that you are making progress on. :)

[jamus_dood]

Fantastic psmonkey, ur doin a ****in awsome job

[michael chan]

hey PsMonkey, are u uploading more photos for us to find

[PSmonkey]

2 more up

[michael chan]

-- ÊGG #3 -- (http://www.dcemu.co.uk/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=21994&page=3&pp=10)

YAY FOUND ANOTHER ONE

scroll down to post #29

[jas0nuk]

-- ξGG #4 --

http://www.dcemu.co.uk/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=21618&page=28&pp=10

Post 278

Woo!

[PSmonkey]

congrats you two. More shots to be posted up later today

[Shadowblind]

they're alot better then last screenshots

[jas0nuk]

-- ξGG #4 --

http://www.dcemu.co.uk/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=21618&page=28&pp=10

Post 278

Woo!
Is this the menu? I can see "MAIN" at the top. And it's got the Quake logo.

[PSmonkey]

Is this the menu? I can see "MAIN" at the top. And it's got the Quake logo.

Yes, It is the main menu. Ingame shows 3d but nothing reconisable.

On the Rugrats shot, Its hard to see but you can make out Didi (the mother) in the shot as well as the back of a chair.

[Timale-Kun]

-- ÊGG #3 -- (http://www.dcemu.co.uk/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=21994&page=3&pp=10)

YAY FOUND ANOTHER ONE

scroll down to post #29

Oh my Damn!!! it was in my post, and didn't see it LOL. What's an improvement PSMonkey...Great Job and Happy Easter!!!

[m64fan]

can't wait for the next pics this is the best :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D

cant wait to see your next pics psmonkey

[drquack02]

Looking good Monkey!

Out of curiosity how many screens will be posted today?

Wanna find at least one :p

[Demolition49]

Those are amazing pics... that is brill progress... well done PSmonkey... dont work to hard though... we dont want u sick again... breaks are for breaks :P

[pkmaximum]

At this rate we will probaly see Mario64 like really playable like in November. which is not far away at all. Or maybe even sooner I'll leave PSmonkey to judge that one.

[BrooksyX]

hey the way that iris is turning out, i think it can keep me occupied untill monkey64 is done, i just cant wait for either though.

[PSmonkey]

FYI, a new one is out there :P

[michael chan]

i found another one! im on a roll!

--  #5 -- (http://www.dcemu.co.uk/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=20592&page=2&pp=10)

scroll down to post #14!

[Vega]

screenshots are lookin good monkey.

[DPyro]

michael chan, can you let someone else find the next one?

[pkmaximum]

Man you have to spend a lot of time on these forums to find 3 geez.

[PSmonkey]

2 more up.

michael chan, try to let somebody else nab the next two. Then feel free on the last batch later tonight.

[Davidov]

Found number 6

http://www.dcemu.co.uk/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=21994&page=1&pp=10

Dunno what game its from lol

[kyle2194]

Yay -- æĝĝ #6 --
http://www.dcemu.co.uk/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=102684&postcount=4
Damn one minute.

[Davidov]

lol oh dear, do i get it since i was 1 minute early...
or did i have to show the actual post in its own window like kyle2194 just did?

[Shadowblind]

ahhh...not bad. now if only u could come up with a zelda OOT screenshot

[kyle2194]

-- ē§ģ #7 --
http://www.dcemu.co.uk/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=102105&postcount=139

[kyle2194]

Wow monkey, good job on the textures there.

[PSmonkey]

ahhh...not bad. now if only u could come up with a zelda OOT screenshot

Give me an official psp devkit and i might :D
Official dev kits have 64MB of ram. :P

[PSmonkey]

Congrats you two. Well thats it for the moment. No more shots till later tonight. There is not much more to show atm.

[michael chan]

michael chan, can you let someone else find the next one?

kk . well im out. i need to go out and eat.

[pkmaximum]

Dam those pics were insane PSmonkey, Also I have a question was Quest running at 10 frames per second cause that is great progress seeming you have not even worked out the dynamic recomplier or the interpreter yet. Man at this rate we will soon be able to play Quest 64 can't wait for that because that was a game that I like a hell of a lot! :)

[Timale-Kun]

-- ē§ģ #7 --
http://www.dcemu.co.uk/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=102105&postcount=139

Looks Impressive!!! I'm surprised day after day, or I can say hour after hour for now^^

[PSmonkey]

Dam those pics were insane PSmonkey, Also I have a question was Quest running at 10 frames per second cause that is great progress seeming you have not even worked out the dynamic recomplier or the interpreter yet. Man at this rate we will soon be able to play Quest 64 can't wait for that because that was a game that I like a hell of a lot! :)

What ever Frame says at the bottom of the image is the actual fps when the picture was taken. Quest64 does run pretty fast when not in diolog mode (usualy 10-15fps, 4-8fps in diolog mode).

[Demolition49]

Im amazed at the progress... when you get your refreshed and back in action ur gnna make sum real progress.

[kyle2194]

Hey Monkey, can you realease a beta version to the people that found the eggs? Pretty please!! j/k

[Shadowblind]

that would be unfair.(besides he said once he released, he would stop working on it 4 a while.)

[sroon]

Aww man! I had to work all day and had to miss all the fun(.)(.)Sobb!

[BrooksyX]

dont worry sroon you will get your chance later tonight.

[jairolas]

wow..... this is great work, u are the best !

[PSmonkey]

ok

well i was hoping to post some more tonight but its getting late and i have to get up for work tomorrow even tho tomorrow is a holiday still. Damn milestone builds. :(

Anyways I will post some more easter hunt pictures tomorrow.

[metaldrmmer666]

Happy Easter to all and holy crap batman :eek: everything seems to be running better than you make it sound!
Little bit of a perfectionist huh?
Well man you don't cease to amaze me.
Don't be so hard on yourself and take it easy. :cool:

[metaldrmmer666]

Also is that loop thing your were talking about in major 64 games an error in the roms or emu.
Only asking because I've been playing mario 64 with the NEMU 64 emu it runs awesome with that in mind if you got the source for that emu would it help getting you out of the LOOP?
Good Luck

[Erban Terrorist]

:mad: :mad: :mad: Hey Mister Psmonkey!!!!!!!! I Neeeeed Your Attention!!!!!!! Well I Just Came From Pspu And I Didnt Like The Sound Of That Crap At All!!!!!! Personally I Think You Should Release Here And Here Only!!!!! Screw All Those A$$holes Over Thier Who Say Dont Come Back Till Its Done, Well **** That!!!!! Those Dicks Dont Deserve Anything Of This Sort!!! I Think U Should Never Post Thier Again And Only Release Here.....besides Youll Get Alot More Hits At Ur Site And Dcemu.co Will Too So I Think We All Take A Vote To Only Release Here.....never Look A Gift Monkey In The Mouth!!!!! I Vote For Psmonkey And Dcemu.co!!!!!!!!!!!

[stotheamuel]

missed all the action all day... ill try tommarow (DAMN my slow internet)

ps: those shots look amazing

and erban terrorist.... i don't really like pspu but psmonkey didnt post there. he only commented... and even if it was posted here i bet someone would post it there something this big

[PSmonkey]

:mad: :mad: :mad: Hey Mister Psmonkey!!!!!!!! I Neeeeed Your Attention!!!!!!! Well I Just Came From Pspu And I Didnt Like The Sound Of That Crap At All!!!!!! Personally I Think You Should Release Here And Here Only!!!!! Screw All Those A$$holes Over Thier Who Say Dont Come Back Till Its Done, Well **** That!!!!! Those Dicks Dont Deserve Anything Of This Sort!!! I Think U Should Never Post Thier Again And Only Release Here.....besides Youll Get Alot More Hits At Ur Site And Dcemu.co Will Too So I Think We All Take A Vote To Only Release Here.....never Look A Gift Monkey In The Mouth!!!!! I Vote For Psmonkey And Dcemu.co!!!!!!!!!!!

Other then posting in the comment section. I am not the one who posted the news article. Either way I am gonna bug clay to IP ban that guy because its the same person over and over again.

Either way this site always gets the release. other sites are just spreading the good word.

Also huge props go to wally for finding a new n64 rom that shows 3d. Its gonna be another egg tomorrow/today.

[Accordion]

I agree about pspu all the posters seem like they know **** all about psp homebrew or any coding at all(not that I know much -though I understand all the effort that you and others put into the programs you make-)
they had the cheek to say the pics look"bad" (bad bad not good bad) WTF those screenshots look amazing we can see what games they are!!

keep up the good work, cant wait for next screenshot.
(post one of IRIS)

[ichmichi]

ähm pspmonkey could i say something.i think you are the best programmer in the world.i love the screenshots of quest 64.i think this is the ebst homebrew for psp in the world

[PSmonkey]

*drool*
The next batch is gonna be good. Will post soon

[sroon]

Yay, maybe I will final have a chance at finding the easter eggs! :D

and why is sniper a ***ot?

[DPyro]

Dunno what his problem is, but I deleted his posts anyways :p

[sroon]

Dunno what his problem is, but I deleted his posts anyways :p
Good, there taking up PSmonkeys space! :mad:

[kersplatty]

monkey,
in the next build you release do you plan on having mario working fully or semi working so we can test out roms for you? :confused:

[kyle2194]

-- 槧 #8 --
http://www.dcemu.co.uk/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=104222&postcount=182

[kyle2194]

-- Æĝĝ #9 --
http://www.dcemu.co.uk/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=95763&postcount=71

[kyle2194]

Egg #9 looks amazing!!

Post more!!

Edit: I'll back off now, i just wanted to tie michael chan.

[PSmonkey]

damn someone is bored. you got them as soon as i posted.

[kyle2194]

Yes, you are correct monkey.

[PSmonkey]

#9 has me currious. I am starting to wonder if 2d is not working because of allignment issues. on the PC memory does not need to be alligned. On the PSP, addresses must be alligned.

That might explain why the giant ship shows fine and everything else shows so so. Actualy even right before that scene there was a bird that flys by and for the first frame the image is perfect then after that it goes corrupt.

[sroon]

Curse you kyle and chan!!!
JK. hey the Egg #9 is almost perfect 2D. great job Monk!!

[michael chan]

r u gonna hide more pics monkey?i just woke up...

[michael chan]

Egg #9 looks amazing!!

Post more!!

Edit: I'll back off now, i just wanted to tie michael chan.

lol....hmm....ah.....he.....bla...... im gonna look for more pics when the pics r up :)

[sroon]

Aww man I really suck at easter egg hunting. I was to slow to find any(.)(.)
Anyway PSmonkey, maybe you answerd this already but are the textures pretty much the 2D part?

[PSmonkey]

textures & sprites all run though the same code to load up. I think there is a memory alignment issue as to why some is ok and some is bad. Yet that does not solve all 2d as I know there are other issues in the conversion from n64 to psp that are not proper (n64 suported many types of sprites).

Oh you guys. There will only be 1 more egg this afternoon and its from iris. 9 shots is enough for now on m64 untill i get some more progress.

[Accordion]

cant wait for the pic of iris.

i keep having to leave the computer so will probably not be the one to find the pic. oh well life and other worries.
i have offically left pspu i will never corrupt my mind by joining that £$%£$@$ up bunch of idiots on that site ever again !!!!!

[lunasicc]

Nice screenshots but I have one question. PSMonkey or whomever can answer this, the reason we can't play Zelda: OOT and other games right now is because if their size right? The PSP doesn't have enough available RAM to hold all the memory, am I correct? If thats so, then how does Neo Geo CDz work? There Roms or ISOs are larger than some N64 games yet it doesnt have any problems playing them. Can anyone help clarify this question, its been bugging me for a while.

Thanks guy and keep up the good work Monkey. Your emulator is history in the making!

[Mysteryman]

Those screen shots look great, keep up the amazing work.

[BrooksyX]

Its called neo geo <big>CD</big>. which means that all the game data that is needed is streamed on to the ram and stuff that isnt needed isnt called for and when it is the data is loaded on to the ram.

Okay that probably isnt 100% correct but i am sure it is somewhat close.

[Accordion]

not that i know anything

the neogeo CD uses just that , CDs so the machine is meant to stream data from the CD in the drive, so i guess the emulator, erm, emulates that and streams the data needed at the time from the memory stick as if it was a CD.

but the N64 uses cartridges and they have to be loaded fully,((i might be talking rubbish here) the cart becomes part of the circuit so you cant only load some of it) and the emulator must copy this as it is how the games run.
like i said i dont really know anything im ust a newb who likes to create his own reality

ha bigmace got there first, but i guess i am sort of right.

[lunasicc]

Yea, makes obvious sense. Thanks guy for clearing that up for me.

[Timale-Kun]

The Wonder Project one is pretty awesome, with 2D...But I'm really suck at Hunting (I'll fix that with Monster Hunter in May LOL), an Iris One for the end of this Hunt^^?? Pretty cool

[Shadowblind]

what game is absolutly playable (even at 1 fps) on m64, if any?

[PSmonkey]

depends what you mean. Do you mean without any errors or with gfx errors but fully playable?

If the first then pong.v64 is you're heop :P
If the second one, Bust a move 3 (E) seems to play fine, Quest64 is playable bar from gfx issues (and at a decent fps), Rampage 1 & 2 are playable, and few others i can't remember off hand.

[PSmonkey]

Ok few things.

1) Last egg was posted. It's from Sniper's Iris map in development (it looks fantastic).

2) I took a 5 sec look at textures again and converted some QWORD pointers down to BYTES (not sure why i left it Qword in the first place). It helped improved the speed in some places.

3) I desided I am going to give you guys all 1 final present. Later tonight I will be posting a video of me playing quest64 on Monkey64. It will be crude (because m64 still is very buggy) but it should still be fun to watch.

[lunasicc]

So does this mean we can expect a build soon (1-2 weeks) if all goes well? Sorry, dont mean to create any more hype or e-mails in your inbox just curious.

Thanks and cant wait for the vid. Hope you're feeling better too.

[DPyro]

OMG I found my own screenshot :p Link (http://www.dcemu.co.uk/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=102009&postcount=221)

[your_flys_open]

http://www.dcemu.co.uk/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=21618&page=23&pp=10


this 1?

[your_flys_open]

NOOOOO 1 minute 2 late

[DPyro]

Lol :p

[your_flys_open]

i got so exited! then... i see ur post

[PSmonkey]

lol,
Fyi sniper did not cheat. He did not know where I posted it.

[DPyro]

Ya I dont cheat, and got the first and last screenshots. YAY!

[your_flys_open]

so wut exactly is that? is it a map for Iris u created?

[Zeemon]

Meanwhile..9 post back:

"1) Last egg was posted. It's from Sniper's Iris map in development (it looks fantastic). "

:)

[your_flys_open]

Meanwhile..9 post back:

"1) Last egg was posted. It's from Sniper's Iris map in development (it looks fantastic). "

:)

oops lol :p

[kyle2194]

Monkey, you are one crazy coder. A few months ago, all we had was a emulator that could run the fire demo at about 1.5 fps. Now we have a commercial game running at 10 fps! Amazing!

[michael chan]

Ok few things.

1) Last egg was posted. It's from Sniper's Iris map in development (it looks fantastic).

2) I took a 5 sec look at textures again and converted some QWORD pointers down to BYTES (not sure why i left it Qword in the first place). It helped improved the speed in some places.

3) I desided I am going to give you guys all 1 final present. Later tonight I will be posting a video of me playing quest64 on Monkey64. It will be crude (because m64 still is very buggy) but it should still be fun to watch.

Do we get to see ur face?i never seen a amazing coder's face.and is the video gonna be long?

[PSmonkey]

Do we get to see ur face?i never seen a amazing coder's face.and is the video gonna be long?

Maybe a few mins worth. I want to show off as much as i can in quest but at the current fps. i will only get so far.

[Shadowblind]

i wouldnt recommend showing ne1 anybodys face. Just for safety (and legal) purposes

[PSP Halo2]

hey i have an egg on me!(i can still speak psp >=( just so ya know)

[PSmonkey]

dur sorry. someone might mistake what I said. I wont show my face. I ment a few mins worth of quest64.

[Demolition49]

This is gonna be a nice cookie !

[middlemaniac]

YEAH! Thanks PSmonkey!

[PSmonkey]

fyi, gonna take longer to get the vid done. dont exspect it probably till super late tonight. its 10:15 and i'm still stuck at work. :mad:

[jairolas]

when do you expect release the next PSmoneky64 version? :o

[Zeemon]

No problem.. We all feel your pain!

[lunasicc]

Dont feel like your obligated to give us a video. Although it would be great, your personal health comes first. Yeah, your probably not as sick, but if your tired you're tired. Take a break and start fresh inthe morning. I'm pretty sure everyone in the forums will understand.

[PSmonkey]

na, i have to stay up tonight anyways since my gf has finals for college this week. so i will be up with her.

it was more just a problem of being stuck at work. yet now i am finaly heading for home so i'll try to get something up at midnight tonight.

[sroon]

OK I have a request that people just please stop asking for the "next release". Monk will release it when he is good and ready.
BTW Monk those are some pretty arousing(.)(.) game screenshots.
and I wish the best of luck to your gf(.)(.) :)

[jairolas]

____ ) (
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____ uu

OMG :eek:

[Zeemon]

Why!?

ohh yeah..interesting waist...

[PSmonkey]

funny.

Anyways my camera at home sucks worse then i though. So the video's will be horible. I took a bunch and will post up the ones that came out the best. I'm gonna bug a friend to use his digital camera that takes much better videos (my stupid camera limits how much you can record based on the vid size and not till you've run out of space :().

--edit--
here are some vids.

Note, all but 1 quest vid were taken in low res. My camera limits how much you can record by size. So if large, i can only get like 15 seconds worth, if low res i can get about 80 seconds worth.

[Infernux]

omg thats great, ive only seen the first one so far, but it is still incredible.

PS, your camera needs glasses or lasecs or something. it = blurry

just saw vid 2 of quest *fanboy squeel* its playable!

[kersplatty]

wow :eek: these are some sexy vids. wot frame rates you gettin on these? quest 64 seems to run well

[Accordion]

wow is right

Quest and bust a move look playable...woohoo

do the games continue to run fine or does it all break down to a crawl or just show a black screen at some point . if they carry on then that is amazing

i am guessing that all the controller input is done then, great progress and iris looks really good as well

[qaopjlll]

Wow those Quest videos are great. If you can just get Mario 64 playable at that speed it would instantly become the best game available for PSP :) Anyway, can you still play Quest after going outside and entering a battle, or does it crash at some point?

[Psycho77]

Focus ! ;)

Look really cool the new vids

[Ahmed_p800]

S*** Very Nice Movies

[m64fan]

I can't see the vids for a while :( i have dial-up :( :mad:

[sroon]

PSmonkey you are very awsome.
Looks like real awsome progress. its good to have some real videos for a change.

[kersplatty]

wot days do you now work on monkey64?

[Snow.Blind]

Wow its really coming along nice job. You can start to see that is 3D

[Chrikke]

Really, really nice progress :) To me this seemed like impossible to do, but you pulled it off. Nice :D

[Demolition49]

I cant wait for the next build now... that was amazing... quest64 looked better than the pics u posted!

[Lumir]

Wow monkey i have to hand it to you. Seeing the progress of this has made me stop and think about the coder behind this. You really are simply amazing, this takes the psp homebrew spotlight once again. Not to mention IRIS which is amazing as well. I really hope coders flock to this in order to help with its progress, i know if i was one i would.

[vettacossx]

well i just want to SAY "thanx" as a guy who has his girl finishing up year 4 of colledge as a psych major i know your house must be very very stressed this time of year with finals and all.....i know my house is a lil more FAST PACED THIS TIME OF YEAR so stress and LAVL OF SLEEP contribute a gr8 deal too my life as well as it does yours im sure!! i get sick this time of year every year it seems ....just the stress of her finishing up at colledge and not enough sleep can easily make a guy sick!!! and if you stay up till 4 am like i do i can sympathize! so thanx for your hard work bro!
PSMONKEY IS A GOD AMONG CODER GODS

[middlemaniac]

Awesome, quest looks really good! Can't wait till mario Kart!

[matts1900]

Wow this is a serious step from the last time I saw it, im immensely impressed. Is this still running on an interpreter? If so then I'm even more impressed. Take it easy, this will make you famous once its done :P

Matt

[Accordion]

as far as i'm concerned PSmonkey is already famous

he's a STAR
a HERO

[Mustang]

nice one - shaping up nicely, cheers for the vidz

[kyle2194]

Great job monkey.

[Timale-Kun]

Videos talk themselves, a WIP update understandable by everyone^^, no technical speaking, everybody can enjoy^^...Great PSMonkey

[Vega]

Superb work as always Monkey. The videos are showing alot of promise. Well done.

[oninotsume]

Because I know nothing of programming or how to make an emulator, I cannot accurately make any kind of real judgement from the videos. However, I do know that before there was nothing being displayed and now there is something, and it looks pretty clear. and that's f**king awesome :D

[metaldrmmer666]

Way to go buddy that was impressive beyond belief. So is monkey64 starting the same way as Iris. What ideas do you have for a menu, I know there was the xbox menu posted on here some time ago that would be pretty kickin. And with Iris will we be able to set what bots we want or will it be random?
Keep on Keepin On brother!

[gangsta_psp]

This is an amazing feat you pulled off with this emulator. I hope everything goes well from here on with this specific project. Its nothing short of amazing. :)

[pkmaximum]

The videos are amazing I can't believe you actually had the ability to walk around in Quest it simply amazed me. And bust a move also looks great but I still think Quest was simply amazing just for its 3D interface and everything. Great work PSmonkey we don't need to see a release of this emulator yet because simply your updating information is enough for us. So keep working on this emulator as its coming out awsome. Soon we will see Mario64 boot up on the PSP. I'm looking foward to that :)!!!

[shenske37]

this is amaizing i didn't think that you would get 3D working (in quest at least) this well and in this short amount of time. keep up the great work! i am absolutely estatic at your progress. the 2D seems to be working very well in (bust a move), this is awsome. once again keep up the good work!!!

[Demolition49]

Im not sure if this has been posted before, but is PSmonkey still on a break???

[stotheamuel]

great videos
me very happy

u still think that goldeneye will be playable by e3?

[PSmonkey]

Im not sure if this has been posted before, but is PSmonkey still on a break???

Nope. currently trying to find texture bugs & also figure out why mario will not work :(

[bugo]

will not? you r saying it definitly?

[Zeemon]

It's not working yet.

[PSmonkey]

Sorry for the spam but I need this post to prove a point at psp-hacks. Someone there is posting as me saying I have donkey emu and it's real. That is a load of horse shit.

Psp-hacks.com comment section is full of ****tards. I did not make post #29. I did make post #30. Donkey is full of shit and will always be full of shit.

That is all

[Shaunhoare]

Wow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Dude You Rock Thank You So Much!!!! This Is Awesome! Soon The Ds Will Be Worth Nothing! Thanks So Much... Is There Any Way Possible I Could Donate Money To You!

[PSmonkey]

Wow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Dude You Rock Thank You So Much!!!! This Is Awesome! Soon The Ds Will Be Worth Nothing! Thanks So Much... Is There Any Way Possible I Could Donate Money To You!

Yes but atm I dont feel right collecting donations untill I have a more advance build release.

I would like to accept donations in the future because 1/3 of it is going to Zilmar & the PJ64 team (i've already talked to him about it and he is fine with it and me mentioning it). Zilmar deserves some donations because of all his hard work on pj64 & all the suport he has given me by answering my many n64 questions. :)

[sroon]

Finaly I have an answer to my long asked question. I will then donate during the next release.
PS I hope that any one who mentions the Donkey crap, should be banned, im sick of hearing this bullazz about nothing!
Sorry to spam(.)(.)

[Shaunhoare]

Yes but atm I dont feel right collecting donations untill I have a more advance build release.

I would like to accept donations in the future because 1/3 of it is going to Zilmar & the PJ64 team (i've already talked to him about it and he is fine with it and me mentioning it). Zilmar deserves some donations because of all his hard work on pj64 & all the suport he has given me by answering my many n64 questions. :)

Im sorry for being off-topic (I think...) but whats PJ64 and who is zilmer... what proects has (S)he done...

[drquack02]

I too plan to donate on the next release.

I take it those box-y flashing on Monkey64 is coming from the game not a weird reation with the camera?

Also please let us know how you fixed the offical Nintendo games allowing them to load. Kinda intrested as to why it works with others, but not offical releases...so just for curiosity's sake.

PS.

Mabey it would be good to sticky an "explaination" of Donkey in the forums, with a *READ* tag....then delete/ban anyone who brings it up. Keep some threads from getting derailed.

[PSmonkey]

Im sorry for being off-topic (I think...) but whats PJ64 and who is zilmer... what proects has (S)he done...

PJ64 is an awsome n64 emulator for pc by zilmar. Alot of great things in the n64 emulation scene have come to be thanks to zilmar's help.

See pj64.net for more info.



I take it those box-y flashing on Monkey64 is coming from the game not a weird reation with the camera?

Also please let us know how you fixed the offical Nintendo games allowing them to load. Kinda intrested as to why it works with others, but not offical releases...so just for curiosity's sake.


Alot of flickering at the moment is due to me not double buffering the display. Everything is just being drawn to the same screen. I do this because I am having a few issues when trying to double buffer. It will be fixed.

Other flickering is from texture issues that require fixing.

Once I figure out why mario & others dont work, you can bet I will be here explaining why. :P

[kersplatty]

maybe nintendo games made by nintendo have a superduper copyright thing in place, just a guess

[Accordion]

but then they woulndnt run properly on any emu,
but they do, so there is a way
if anyone can find it PSmonkey can
wooo!!

[PSmonkey]

maybe nintendo games made by nintendo have a superduper copyright thing in place, just a guess

Half of it is Tlb emulation. Half of it is nintendo stuff is more strict on the hardware (like fails if not accurate), or nintendo pushes the hardware a bit more.

Sure games like quest64 are still quite complex but in general 3rd party coders are not so strict when writing code.

Eventualy I will find the thing holding me back and get more roms running.

[BrooksyX]

Im sure monkey will get it figured out, I just hope sooner rather than later.

[Vega]

lol, that crowd over at psp-hacks do seem abit slow.
anyways monkey, sure your sick of hearing this, but when do you plan on releasing the next build?

and yeah Project64 is one helluva emulator. I donated quite a while ago. Truley awesome stuff. Honestly, I would shit myself if Monkey64 ran like PJ64 on a psp. Fingers crossed.

[ZFB8]

Lol, what happened to that goal of having GoldenEye playable by E3? It's coming soon ;D

But really, that was a joke post. I'm not saying it should be out by then, although that would be nice =P

Take your time. I'd rather wait longer and have a quality emulator than get one tomorrow that is half assed.

[chickenclaws]

what does e3 mean?

[BrooksyX]

The Electronic Entertainment Expo, or in other words a yearly video game event where companies show of their stuff and try to get some media attention.

[PSmonkey]

Lol, what happened to that goal of having GoldenEye playable by E3? It's coming soon ;D

But really, that was a joke post. I'm not saying it should be out by then, although that would be nice =P

Take your time. I'd rather wait longer and have a quality emulator than get one tomorrow that is half assed.

I was trying but since I can't even run mario still. I dont think i will have goldeneye by then. :(

[Flyingcow]

I just want to say thankyou for your hard work psmonkey. It may flicker a little but what i saw was pretty amazing and you have come a long way since the first screens I saw. Even then i was freaking out, i couldnt see the games in the pictures but i was happy that someone was at least trying to do it.

[PSmonkey]

Jesus christ. Talk about down time. :P

Anyways I've been busy with work so not much progress.

I did how ever fix a small bug that makes quest64 even better. It was really ignorance on my part. I needed to turn backface culling to Counter ClockWise (which is what f3dex microcode used) and that pretty much solved alot.

I fixed some PI DMA Bugs & also There are some recent improvements in weltris which now shows some of the 3d menu but crashes in game. Not sure why it crashes yet.

I'll get some shots up later today.

Well thats about it for now. :P

[Psycho77]

Ah good to know, yeah it was a very long downtime. Good thing stuff seem back now.

[PSmonkey]

oh yeah. Here I've been meaning to add this in but been a bit lazy.

Now Monkey suports full screen. :D :D

The game is a bit streached not because it's streaching a 320x240 image to full screen. It's insted modifying the viewport to fullscreen. So the 3d is still drawn in a [-1,1] format but now -1 = 0 and 1 = 480.

:P

--edit--
The black lines are from printf (not because of emulation. :P)

[chad69]

nice screenshot

[DPyro]

Ok heres another for your viewing pleasure :)

[Cap'n 1time]

wow. seems to be comming together great.

[Sumo X]

Looks great, monkey. You've done far more than most people expected and in such a short period of time.

Kudos to you.

[jamus_dood]

10 fps?? nice 1

[Ahmed_p800]

Nice but why does it look better on the movie??

Is it because its moving???

[PSmonkey]

Mostly yeah. A movie does make it better since you can get a sense of how fast it's running.

[BrooksyX]

screens look nice monkey!

any progress on iris?

[sroon]

HFS!!
Thats freaken awsome!
btw, has the speed gone up at all?

[Demolition49]

Wow, that downtime bugged me out bad.

[MonoLoco]

Me too...for a second there I was worrying that you were given a cease-and-desist...but then you'd think the site would still be up.

[Shilo]

:eek: Those are some nice screen shots! Monkey 64 has come along way since the white boxes in Mortal Kombat Trilogies. BTW how does that game play now?

[PSmonkey]

game is about the same. My shot has a low fps because of constantly trying to take a decent screenshot (and it kept sending me to the pause menu). Quest at the moment is around 11-14fps in the start of the game. Not sure how it is later on. never tried that far.

--edit--
the fps is low from screenshots since dumping vram to a bmp takes a few seconds which causes for the next update of the fps counter to be inacurate. As well my fps updates are not very frequent so it takes a few seconds to update the fps counter.

[ukcuf16]

Good job ps monkey that is a huge improvement since march. GJ!!! :)

[Demolition49]

So instead of stretching to full screen cant u just make it display full screen normally?

[PSmonkey]

Ok not much progress. I spent last night debuging mario again. I found out it has some serious pi dma transfers. This is bad and what is posibly breaking the game. So i am gonna dig into it some more today.


So instead of stretching to full screen cant u just make it display full screen normally?

Actualy it is. When the psp recieves the polygons. It's rendering them to the psp res. That is why it looks better then a 320x240 image streached full screen.

It's posible to tune it a bit so it dont look so streached on the psp screen but at the moment its fine.

[drquack02]

Hey Monkey could you give me a little rundown on what pi dma transfers are (assuming you have time, since you are a busy person).

When you say this is bad do you mean in relivence to Monkey64s possible development, or simply another obsticle that will take time to get through?

Would be a shame to lose Nintendo roms. Anyways keep up the good work and thanks for your time!

[PSmonkey]

Hey Monkey could you give me a little rundown on what pi dma transfers are (assuming you have time, since you are a busy person).

When you say this is bad do you mean in relivence to Monkey64s possible development, or simply another obsticle that will take time to get through?

Would be a shame to lose Nintendo roms. Anyways keep up the good work and thanks for your time!

Just a difficult thing to get though is all.

PI transfer is when the N64 DMA (Direct Memory Access) or Copies a large chunk of data from Rom to Ram/RDRAM. It's a fast way to move sizable chunks of data then to do byte by byte.

Mario64 does a bunch of transfers properly but 3 specific transfers become invalid. I am not sure if it's with in the block of code that made it invalid or if it was invalid before being passed to the block of code.

It's not really complex but I need more time to probe for the bug.

[drquack02]

Thanks for the explaination!

Well I guess half the solution is finding the problem. Good luck, and keep us posted!

[middlemaniac]

Wow! This is turning out to be awesome! Any idea on when you think Mario Kart 64 will be working?

[Demolition49]

Jus a question PSmonkey, i admire how you dont get demmoralised when you get stuck with a bug with ANY of your programming, how do u keep going?

[MonoLoco]

I'm wondering that myself...I've taken several hours in my coding (and I'm coding much simpler things) trying to fix little nitpicky bugs, and after all's said and done, I usually give up for a couple of weeks at a time. How do you manage?

[Produkt]

The love of the "game" no pun intended...

everyone has their passions.

[PSmonkey]

I go all ninja/comando style on the bug. Running at it full force and testing all angles till i drop dead of sleep deprivation. :P

[Psycho77]

I go all ninja/comando style on the bug. Running at it full force and testing all angles till i drop dead of sleep deprivation. :P

Somehow, commando style doesn't fit in that sentence.

Translation:
I sit naked on my chair. Playing Project 64 all night long until girlfriend call me bed ;)

[PSmonkey]

Somehow, commando style doesn't fit in that sentence.

Translation:
I sit naked on my chair. Playing Project 64 all night long until girlfriend call me bed ;)


lol. Not close tho. I do reverse debuging on the psp & pj64 at the same time. I find the entry point of a code block. check it on the psp to find what brached to it then keep working backwards.

So far I've traced it back to a tlb instruction. I think I went far back enough to find the different memory addresses for the different loads.

It goes (best i can figure out)

ERET (not sure why, I might have this wrong)

Increase Stack pointer
Store registers to stack
Load branch addr (the start of our function)
Load Addr for PI values <- Different after first 20 transfers
Load RDRAM_ADDR to A2
Load ROM_ADDR to A1
Load WR_LEN to A3
Branch to Addr (Loc for pif transfer)

Increase Stack Pointer
Store Registers to stack
Do Some Work
Load RDRAM_ADDR from Stack
Translate RDRAM ADDR
Store RDRAM_ADDR to PI_RDRAM_ADDR Reg
Load ROM_ADDR
TRanslate ROM_ADDR
Store ROM_ADDR to PI_ROM_ADDR
Load WR_LEN
Add -1 (odd it does this vs calling sub instruction)
Store WR_LEN to PI_WR_LEN
PI_DMA_WRITE triggered by previous instruction
...
...
Branch ...

... = Cleanup but I am not fully sure.

That is what I figured out so far in a nut shell. Atleast now I have an addr for where it gets the values from. So with more tracing. I can find out hopefuly what is writing to that specific address.

:( Hopefuly mario will be going soon. I dont want to have to reverse enginear the entire game in asm just to find the bug. :P

[Psycho77]

Ah yeah, interesting... I figured you were doing something similar thought.

Do you have a special debug mode in your PSP version, or like you write in a log file or you just check which block code you are at ?

[PSmonkey]

Ah yeah, interesting... I figured you were doing something similar thought.

Do you have a special debug mode in your PSP version, or like you write in a log file or you just check which block code you are at ?

I have it setup now where I can make debug builds that give me more options (like break or debug at an addr, then either wait for input or just start printing the opcode list from that point). It helps in debuging.

[Cap'n 1time]

man this is great... but you should really start on that halflife port:p

[disturbed19]

haha just leave him alone man, as u can see he is really busy with Monkey 64 and with his personal life.

[Cap'n 1time]

heh, i was kidding.. i remember at one point people were giving him an aneurysm over a halflife port HE SAID HE WOULD NOT DO!

[BrooksyX]

Psmonkey, this is just getting better and better. I am just dying for the next release,(do you think you might release the next version when are able to get mario to load correctly?)

[disturbed19]

hey psmonkey do u think it would be possible to release by the end of the month? it would be pretty cool to check it out in its current state. maybe we can also find new bugs.

[PSP Fanatic]

When Mario 64 runs everyone's gonna be playing their PSP like crazy. I hope Mario runs soon.

[DPyro]

I think Psmonkey will have Super Mario 64 somewhat working by E3 :)

[PSmonkey]

I dont care what mario gives me. If it gives me anything even just playing with the freaking 3d head. I'm posting a build that same day it works.

No clue when that is.


man this is great... but you should really start on that halflife port:p

Runs after 1timeuser samurai style with a nerf bat.
:mad:

^ Yes I get jokes. That is my joke responce.

[Cooe14]

Any progress?

[PSmonkey]

Any progress?

PC<0x80327530> & PC<0x80337610> are magic locations in mario (J).

I realised posting on psp-hack forums is a waste of time (i wont return, even if the guy is banned again).

I would give the address of problems but I did not lable my notes very well in my notebook. So I dont know which one is it.

Sniper found 2 more games that do something (offroad & some majong game).

Thats all for now. maybe I will figure out more on mario later tonight.

[Shilo]

I dont care what mario gives me. If it gives me anything even just playing with the freaking 3d head. I'm posting a build that same day it works.

No clue when that is.



Runs after 1timeuser samurai style with a nerf bat.
:mad:

^ Yes I get jokes. That is my joke responce.


LOL nerf bat LOL (I can harldy type I'm laughing so hard). :D :D :D :D :D :D :D

Good luck with getting Mario to work. I think it would be pretty cool to see just a big 3d head walking around :D

LMAO nerf bat LMAO

[Cooe14]

Shilo I think he means the 3-D head in the main menu that you pull and stuff not playing the game with a floating head, but hey I could be wrong.

[PSmonkey]

Shilo I think he means the 3-D head in the main menu that you pull and stuff not playing the game with a floating head, but hey I could be wrong.

You got it!

[Shilo]

Woops! I forgot about that!:D

[Demolition49]

Im VERY glad to see you are progressing with mario, slowly but surely.

Also, how is Iris, even tho i prefer monkey64 :D

[daibo]

PC<0x80327530> & PC<0x80337610> are magic locations in mario (J).

I realised posting on psp-hack forums is a waste of time (i wont return, even if the guy is banned again).

I would give the address of problems but I did not lable my notes very well in my notebook. So I dont know which one is it.

Sniper found 2 more games that do something (offroad & some majong game).

Thats all for now. maybe I will figure out more on mario later tonight.

So your build crashed each time those 2 adresses are in the program counter?

[PSmonkey]

So your build crashed each time those 2 adresses are in the program counter?

Nope. Thoes are magic because they are the starting segment to two functions. The first one preps, the second is the function that stores the register values and triggers a PI transfer. :P

[daibo]

So those are "labels" of subroutines? What exactly needs to be fixed?

[PSmonkey]

So those are "labels" of subroutines? What exactly needs to be fixed?

Find out where the inaccurate bug exsist.

Pretty much what I started with was knowing that invalid PI transfer were going on. The more I looked the more I found out that there are 3 invalid transfers after 20 good transfers. I now know where the function starts and know the address where the values are stored. Later tonight I will know where it is writing thoes values before calling a transfer. Hopefuly that will lead me to a single bad instruction or case so I can fix it and get mario working.

:P

[daibo]

Good to hear! Don't stay up as late as I'm going to, with a AI exam tomorrow. BTW what's your nick @ps2dev.org?
I hope to catch up with your programming skills when i'm as old as you now :P. You were at the same age as i am when writing the ngage neo geo pocket emu. Did you already work on gba games at that time?

[BrooksyX]

sounds like you are gonna tackle this bug soon.

[Psycho77]

I wonder what this morning reserve us ;)

[Cap'n 1time]

i actually have a nerf bat phobia... now im going to hide in the corner in a fetile position.

[sroon]

i actually have a nerf bat phobia... now im going to hide in the corner in a fetile position.
LOL!

btw how is quest going Monk?

[LHorse007]

i actually have a nerf bat phobia... now im going to hide in the corner in a fetile position.
fertile or fetal? there is a difference :)

[Cooe14]

fertile or fetal? there is a difference :)
lol :D

[PSmonkey]

heh I dont think we want to know the answer :P

Anyways back to mario. Not much new. Pretty much at the moment debuging mario is like playing an rpg.

. Yay you enter a new town
. You search around to learn where to go in the town
. You meet the town people to get what you need
. You find a clue that tells you how to get to the next town
. You leave the current town for the next
. Repeat the above

Tis not fun. :P

Oh well. Hopefuly my quest will lead me to the holy grail.

[Cooe14]

"PSmonkey defeats Mario64-recevied 24 gil, gained 330 exp- level up (Final Fantasy level up music)" :)

[bugo]

lol!
yo monkey, can you figure it out with someone who has pass through it before like Project64? or for PSP its a really different way?

[Accordion]

what a strange comparison!
what happens if you need to enter a dungeon to retrieve some magic sword or such

Please please please can we have some info on iris?
or, if you dont like people whining and begging...
GIVE ME IRIS NOW!!!!!!!!!! OR SUFFER MY WRATH!!!!!!!!! ROAR
only kidding, keep up the good work

[PSmonkey]

No Iris updates atm. I've been flooded at work. I barly get an hour of work on m64 every few day. It sucks royaly.

Other then that I've been thinking about doing a render test to see if it might be better to do a render tree by textures

.Node
../....\
T1...T2 <- textures
/|\.../|\
sss.sss <- surfaces

This way less time is spent passing texture over multiple times when rendering the scene (ie area to the left might do texture 1, then texture 2, then texture 1 is used again on area right. Insted do all surfaces that use texture 1, then all surfaces using texture 2).

Still also need to do a emboss bumpmap test. :/



"PSmonkey defeats Mario64-recevied 24 gil, gained 330 exp- level up (Final Fantasy level up music)" :)

Bugs are like random encounters. Yet for some reason they are all ****ing wimps atm. None will come out and fight me. :mad:

[Accordion]

wacth out
soon you might get some crazy Yunalesca boss appear and use hellbiter causing everything to reverse and go crazy!!!!! or megadeath ahhh

[DPyro]

Heheh. Nope, none will popout of the shrubs to show their face :P

[drquack02]

Hmm...level up your Enemy Lure materia a bit...

Its a shame work has been so busy for you, but its gotta come first.

Put in time whenever you want to.

You seem to be making amazing process working the number of hours you say you are. I was imagining someone sitting infront of a computer at 4am icing his hands down and typing away code..

So is this render test being done to target frames per second? It seems like having to re-render stuff would slow it down a bit...or is it for texture accuracy?

Also what are you trying to target with the emboss bumpmap?

Keep on truckin' ;)

[Produkt]

You obviously havent used a computer for a long time... your hands will naturaly lose heat to the keyboard and mouse, more so to the mouse, I learned that from WoW... /cry :P

[Demolition49]

Im looking foward to the next update, it will prob be mario ... it also just crossed my mind how monkey64 hasnt leaked.. but then again u sent it to trust worthy ppl...

[PSmonkey]

Yay, I found the magical Super Mario Bos 3 flute that will warp me to the world 9.
:p

Anyways I realised that the value was constant so insted i started taping memory write opcodes and sure enough I found a nice small stack of 6 instances where it writes the bad value i am trying to trace. So now directly jumping to the first instance might help me speed this up faster.




So is this render test being done to target frames per second? It seems like having to re-render stuff would slow it down a bit...or is it for texture accuracy?

Also what are you trying to target with the emboss bumpmap?

Keep on truckin' ;)

The render test is for iris so mapers like produkt can push even more geoemtry and put more crapy psp developers to shame. :D

Emboss bumpmapping is to try adding advance rendering effects to make the game look nicer. Sure we wont get all xbox style crazy bump mapping but some simple bits to allow a level to look nicer is well worth it.

[Psycho77]

Anyways I realised that the value was constant so insted i started taping memory write opcodes and sure enough I found a nice small stack of 6 instances where it writes the bad value i am trying to trace. So now directly jumping to the first instance might help me speed this up faster.

You forgot to clear the Double V again ! ;)

But this sound promising !

[DPyro]

Im looking foward to the next update, it will prob be mario ... it also just crossed my mind how monkey64 hasnt leaked.. but then again u sent it to trust worthy ppl...
Lol. Now why would anyone do that. :rolleyes:

[PSmonkey]

Well good news and bad news.

First I fixed my invalid PI Dma transfers (it was due to the rom being v64 format and I only byteswapped the first half of the rom). The bad news is it does jack shit for the rest of the game. :(

So i am back to square one.
A very big bummer. Oh well, ill get this game figured out sooner or later.

[Cooe14]

So that wasn't the problem after all. Maybe zilmar can help you figure out what's making it not work.

[drquack02]

Well good news and bad news.

First I fixed my invalid PI Dma transfers (it was due to the rom being v64 format and I only byteswapped the first half of the rom). The bad news is it does jack shit for the rest of the game. :(

So i am back to square one.
A very big bummer. Oh well, ill get this game figured out sooner or later.

How much of a Square One is this? In regards to fixing the Mario rom, or the project?

[BrooksyX]

i am pretty sure he just means mario 64

[PSmonkey]

back to square one on mario. I am still unsure where the bug is. We (me & zilmar) think it's waiting for something to trigger yet have no clue what that is.

[Cooe14]

This is just my thoughts but i think you should choose a different game to work on, one that already loads like quest and get that running better and then come back to this problem with Nintendo's roms.

[stotheamuel]

heres my solution everyone donates 50-100 dollars each


collect all the money together...

AND

insider trading with the executives that worked for nintendo when 64 came out

they'll probobly know why nintendo games like mario wont work

[DPyro]

Woooo I think I just figured out what Monkeys problem is!!!

More information to follow. :)

[stotheamuel]

i hope your serious... fingers crossed

if ur ****ing with us... tssk tssk

[DPyro]

This is no joke. Unforetunately we will have to wait awhile as its 2:00AM over here so naturally PSmonkey isnt online. BTW, PSmonkey check your PM's when you read this :)

[bugo]

nice to know sniper... good news is always wanted!

[lunasicc]

Hope you figured out the problem. This would be a very good update and progess

[drquack02]

This is no joke. Unforetunately we will have to wait awhile as its 2:00AM over here so naturally PSmonkey isnt online. BTW, PSmonkey check your PM's when you read this :)

Care to enlighten us on the bug you found? Or are you gonna make me check back every hour :confused: :p

[Infernux]

No Iris updates atm. I've been flooded at work. I barly get an hour of work on m64 every few day. It sucks royaly.

Other then that I've been thinking about doing a render test to see if it might be better to do a render tree by textures

.Node
../....\
T1...T2 <- textures
/|\.../|\
sss.sss <- surfaces

This way less time is spent passing texture over multiple times when rendering the scene (ie area to the left might do texture 1, then texture 2, then texture 1 is used again on area right. Insted do all surfaces that use texture 1, then all surfaces using texture 2).

Still also need to do a emboss bumpmap test. :/




forget emboss bumpmapping, STEEP PARALLAX PIXEL MAPPING!!! (http://graphics.cs.brown.edu/games/SteepParallax/index.html)

[LHorse007]

This is no joke. Unforetunately we will have to wait awhile as its 2:00AM over here so naturally PSmonkey isnt online. BTW, PSmonkey check your PM's when you read this :)
better not be a joke, if you come back and say, "Oh, it's because he's a monkey and typing with your feet isn't as productive as it sounds" i will smack you :)

[DPyro]

better not be a joke, if you come back and say, "Oh, it's because he's a monkey and typing with your feet isn't as productive as it sounds" i will smack you :)

LOL! Good one :D

[Psycho77]

Oh waiting, good news there. He is not online this morning ! But still seem a promising weekend.

[PSmonkey]

forget emboss bumpmapping, STEEP PARALLAX PIXEL MAPPING!!! (http://graphics.cs.brown.edu/games/SteepParallax/index.html)

HA HA HA HA :D

I dout the PSP could handle steep parallax mapping. Even normal mapping would be costly. Luckly tho emboss bumpmapping is ungodly cheap, specialy on the psp since the video ram is really fast. A second surface render of a texture in vram would not be that costly.

Emboss bumpmapping is just a simple light calculation to the surface & 5-6 render passes.

Don't exspect high res bumpmaps tho. ;)

[Cap'n 1time]

$n!per.. you seem to always know alot.. exactly how are you involved with this project?